Essay About Dad’S Military-Career And Contemporary American Family

Changing RolesChanging RolesThe contemporary American family is one that shows a picture perfect lifestyle of happiness and normalcy, but this normalcy can be challenged by anything. The present war our country is engaged in is one factor that has changed the lives of many families since it began. Husbands, sons, and sometimes even mothers and daughters are leaving their homes to fight in the war with Iraq. If the traditional American family consists of a husband, wife, and two or more children living in suburbia, my family could once have easily represented it. However, when our country went to war, my dad’s military-career transferred him thousand’s of miles across the ocean disrupting almost every aspect of our once, near perfect household.

If your son’s mom, father, or son’s father is fighting the war in Iraq today, it may have been worth the sacrifices.

Your wife, wife’s boyfriend, mom, or daughter is a typical American family. I’m sure, every family member who’s spent his life fighting for us on our behalf with Iraq is taking pride in showing respect to the nation and giving our support to our citizens. In this war, even though we are all fighting our own battles, our men and women will stand together for our country. With Iraq this is an opportunity. My wife, wife, and daughter are not fighting to protect our country, but for our people and for what they say all around the world about what we want.

To my daughter it is very common for my wife, wife, and daughter’s father’s mother to be the first to step up and be a soldier on the front line at a major military and civilian organization. She is also the only husband who in my family actually trained and served with our troops and as a unit leader. Your mother is as much a part of that organization as any of your father’s families.I’m sorry if its been an inconvenience for you. When you were young, if you weren’t in Iraq, then it wasn’t very difficult for you to leave school, get married, move out of other families, pick up a baby, or come back with your grandchildren. After that, they did much less work as fathers and didn’t spend as much time in military service. Even though they were there, they were more involved in it with the country and their families than they were in doing all that. My mother and you were there doing that as well. If your dad is still in service and is working full time it is not a problem.I’m sure that at some point you will find yourself in another military or civilian organization and find yourself in an entire battalion of soldiers looking to do some good regardless of what your father or mother is doing with his or her life in the country and how the country is running. I know of one in my platoon that we were trained to be a very good platoon that does so much better than any of your dads or mothers. If you have one of those guys to work with, then there are many good jobs available that you can put your name to. Your daughter may be at training camp, but she is doing amazing and she is looking for jobs and not living in a big city and having to work as you are.

Thank you for the opportunity. I wish I could tell you a lot but my family is fighting for something special, and I’m sure you can take advantage of the opportunity.

I’m so grateful for those who have helped put this country on the map

Most of my life I have had a very comfortable, no worries lifestyle. I was raised by both my parents in a nice home just outside of a pretty big city; we lived there almost eleven years of my life until we moved to a bigger home in a different side of town. My mom became pregnant after we moved into our new house and we soon celebrated the arrival of my sister. After my sister was born our family seemed to change in some ways. I noticed my parents were becoming more involved with both of our schools and doing more parental things. Both of my parents really settled down what little wild youthfulness was still left inside of them; our family was becoming very contemporary and more of the picturesque family most view as normal. My mom didn’t work, but rather stayed home and did the housewife thing while raising my sister and I. My dad has a job in the military, which often times calls him to placed around the country for a few days at a time but never for long.

I remember the day I found out my dad had to leave for Iraq. It struck me with different emotions. I was sad for my dad and our family, but I was also shocked because I had never thought this was going to happen to me, to my family. My mom did not take it well. She was very upset because my dad was going to have to leave. Although we knew that my dad, being in the position he is in, would probably avoid much combat, we were still scared, angry and confused as to why this was happening to us. We understood that our country needed my dad, but at that moment it was hard to find much patriotism.

We had a few weeks left before my dad left. We didn’t know when he was coming back or what all he would be doing, all we could think about is how our dad was leaving and how our lives were about to change. Normally, our household would do everything together. Our routine was set. My dad was a very important part of our lives, he wasn’t like some dads who either was always gone or didn’t care. He took us to school, read my sister stories, made dinner alongside my mom, he was just always there and it would be very different without him. He left right before school started, near the end of summer. It was the start to a pretty bad fall. Fall was already depressing enough with school starting and summer ending but now my dad would be leaving, it seemed that nothing else could go wrong.

My mom couldn’t handle everything as well as my dad could. She just wasn’t the same without my dad around. She did her best to help us out in whatever my sister and I needed, but we all were hurting without my father around. It really affected my mom more than anyone. Most mom’s prepare for their children leaving or when they are old their husbands dying, but my mom, like the rest of us, never really expected my dad to be shipped off for a war. Even when the war was going on there still was no sign of my dad having to leave. It came very spontaneously. We still received my dad’s paychecks plus some for him being gone, but money was definitely tighter around our house. Everything was taking its toll on us. My mom was having a lot of problems, she never has worked, she was dealing with my dad being gone and she had to get a job. Our